Anxiety — that feeling of dread, fear, worry and panic — is certainly nothing new. Hippocrates wrote about it in the fourth century BCE. As did Søren Kierkegaard in the 1860s. And Sigmund Freud addres…

Most of us know that “Smells Like Teen Spirit” sounds pretty good. But what does it sound like being played by 1,200 musicians? Apparently, it sounds rather amazing. So let your spirit free and listen…

A recent study served to confirm the patently obvious: song lyrics for the most popular genres of music are ridiculously obtuse — and getting worse over time. Though this might not be a revelation, th…

In the early 1950s, archaeologists unearthed several clay tablets from the 14th century B.C.E.. Found, WFMU tells us, “in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit,” these tablets “contained cuneiform signs i…

The Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi trained alongside composer Luciano Berio in the early 1980s and soon began to incorporate in the compositions of different genres and styles such as pop, rock, fol…